Work by Jon Sands

  1. The Curtsy

    Posted in Gossip!, October 2009

    Male or female (and every­thing in between): it’s just a really classy way to accept praise.

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  2. Impromptu Dance Parties

    Posted in Gossip!, October 2009

    If you’re host­ing, never say the word “dance.” Buy the alco­hol, then keep Blackstreet and Michael locked in the cham­ber till fireworks time.

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  3. Glory

    Posted in Poetry, October 2009

    I tell Lee and Warner I saw it on tele­vi­sion. Just tele­vi­sion. That when leaves on sub­ur­ban shrub­bery look exactly like these leaves, that is when Jackemiah rises from the Earth’s stom­ach like an evil olive pit sucked clean by the devil. Their faces rum­ple into ner­vous raisins as I explain how sure I am, [...]

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  4. Party & Bullshit

    Posted in Poetry, October 2009

    after Notorious B.I.G. When the but­tons on your shirt become smooth bul­lets through each open­ing the bath­room mir­ror, a sooth­sayer spe­cial­iz­ing in the mur­der of liv­ing room dance floor each side­walk from here to Atlantic-Pacific Billy Jeans at your feet. Every door you open tonight is a sac­ri­fice to gods whose names you will never learn just like [...]

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